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fied with the propofed expedient, he returned this memorable 

 anfwer : " I have repeatedly told you that in this affair I have 

 " acled from confcience. I will never fubfcribe that declara- 

 " tion, unlefs I am allowed to qualify it; and if my fubfcription is 

 " to be public ', I cannot be fatisfied that the falvo mould be latent." 

 His feat in the Court of Seflion was not filled up for three 

 years ; during all which time, he was affailed in vain by the 

 folicitations both of his brethren on the Bench, and of the 

 King's Minifters. Happy in the approbation of his own mind, 

 and honoured with the efteem of all men of worth, he retired 

 to his family-feat of Arniflon ; and there, in the tranquil en- 

 joyments of the country, in the gratification of a tafte for po- 

 lite literature, and in the fociety of his friends, he patted the 

 remainder of his days. 



Sir James Dundas died in the year 1679. Robert, his 

 eldeft fon, by Marion, daughter of Robert Lord Boyd, was 

 bred to the profefhon of the law. He reprefented the county 

 of Edinburgh for many years in the Parliament of Scotland ; 

 and was appointed a Judge of the Court of Seflion by King 

 William in 1689. He filled that ftation, during the period 

 of thirty-feven years, with great honour and integrity ; and be- 

 fore his death in 1727, had the fatisfaclion of feeing his eldeft 

 fon * fucceflively difcharging the moft important offices in the 

 law, and though a very young man, far advanced in that 

 fplendid career in which he was deftined to arrive at the fum- 

 mit of his profeffion. 



This was Robert Dundas of Arniflon, afterwards Lord 

 Prefident of the Court of Seflion, the Father of him who is the 

 proper fubjed of this Memoir. Though in no period of his 

 life diftinguifhed for laborious application to ftudy, he had, in 



Vol. II. (F) his 



* Born 9th December 1685. His mother was Margaret, daughter of Sir Robert 

 Sinclair of Stevenfon. 



Account of 

 Lord Prefideni 

 Dundas, 



